Drifter Motion Planning for Optimal Surveillance of the Ocean (DRIMPOS)

Abstract

In recent years substantial progress, much of it resulting directly from ONR funding initiatives, has been made in understanding fundamental features of transport and mixing in oceans using methods derived from dynamical systems theory. The purpose of the current collaborative research is to extend these methods to the design of control algorithms for Drifter Motion Planning for Optimal Surveillance of the Ocean (DRIMPOS). This effort is a direct attempt to transition Lagrangian based dynamical systems methods from diagnostic, postdictive tools to essential and active components in the design of oceanographic and naval observing systems. The specific goals of the research project include the development of flow-based control algorithms for drifting autonomous sensing systems.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2007
Accession Number
ADA573295

Entities

People

  • Andrew C. Poje

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
  • Autonomous Vehicles
  • Control Systems
  • Flow
  • Flow Fields
  • High Resolution
  • Mathematics
  • Motion Planning
  • New York
  • Ocean Surveillance
  • Oceans
  • Regions
  • Stratified Fluids
  • Surveillance
  • Universities
  • Vehicles

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Adaptive Control and Estimation with Uncertainty in Dynamic Systems.
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
  • Oceanography.